When was this C function definition style, with type declarations of parameters after the parameter list, invented? C is a general-purpose programming language that has been around since 1972. It was created by Dennis Ritchie, a Scottish born computer scientist who was also a professor at the University of Toronto. He did a lot of research on operating systems and wrote a book called "The C Programming Language" which was one of the first major texts about programming. It became popular because it was easy to learn and because it could be used for...